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Whenever one is starting any sort of QA endeavor, a plan needs to be put in place. This is important for testing the performance of an application as well. Being fully prepared and having a well-defined test plan put in place can help prevent delays. QASource’s expert engineers have pulled together their expertise and created a checklist of metrics and tasks to complete when preparing for performance testing.

The "Internet Of Things" is leading to a tremendous change in the world by enabling connection of devices, sensors and appliances with huge exchange of data. This requires new learning verticals for the performance testers to evaluate the performance of any IOT eco-system.

We have gathered some useful information which can help you to understand the change in performance testing approach and the areas of learning before commencing performance testing of IOT eco-system.

We continue to support our community with useful tips and knowledge base. Keep exploring more on performance testing with our quarterly performance testing newsletters.

Smartphones today have evolved from merely a communication device to a multi-functional tool which makes life easier. A study by Statista reveals that 4.93 billion people use smartphone applications for daily needs, banking, video streaming, antivirus, and much more.

This outspread of smartphones creates the need for effective performance testing of mobile applications. For example, if a person is seeking help through a healthcare application to call an ambulance, the slow responding application could lead to loss of life.

Business success is also related to performance of a smartphone application and any slowness in the application's transaction could lead to an opportunity for their competitors. Hence, we have come up with useful information about performance testing for mobile apps and evaluated “LoadView” – a performance testing tool.

Monitoring of application components is a crucial step during performance testing to ensure that the application workflows perform optimally in the real world. It also enables us to identify the root cause of potential bottlenecks before it hits production environment. This time around, we have gathered some useful information related to APM tool selection & monitoring practices and evaluated one of the major APM tool (New Relic). We continue to support our community with useful tips & knowledge base. Keep exploring more on performance testing with our quarterly performance testing newsletters.

One of the most overlooked steps in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs has to do with testing them for data consistency, response times, and availability. In API testing, we test APIs and its integrations which results in most optimal functioning. It can be driven in two ways, using commercial tool or by developing your own testing framework. All of these are based on API needs (Say: How API technically works, Handles large amount of calls, Permission/Access controls etc.) In this newsletter, we bring you the concepts that helps to understand API testing and its tools/techniques used to perform so that you can employ the right kind of approach as per your testing requirements.

The technology sphere is changing day by day. The traditional approach where organization(s) had to buy their own network, purchase software license(s) is now being replaced with cloud computing. In cloud computing, organization(s) use the machines, software license(s) on demand basis and they pay for hours only when the resources are used. On top of it, they also get the benefit that the machines are available across the world. Cloud is the only solution, if performance testing needs to be performed from different Geographical locations. Cloud based performance testing solutions provide distinct advantages in terms of speed, scalability and availability of on demand test labs without much investment or efforts. Our experts have provided information like tips on cloud based performance testing and tool selection in this quarterly performance testing newsletter. Hopefully, you will like it.

Data has become an essential part of every industry, organization and individual. With the advent of social media, the data is growing exponentially and needs to be managed so that it can be stored and retrieved quickly for faster processing. Here, 'Big Data' is a term used to identify the datasets that cannot be processed using traditional computing techniques. New technologies are required to store unstructured large datasets and processing methods. In this newsletter, we bring you the concepts that help us to understand the tools/techniques used to manage Big Data so that you can employ the right kind of tool as per your testing requirements.

Emerging of new technologies or changes in existing technologies always bring new challenges in Performance testing. This time around we have evaluated tools & extracted some useful information that can help in conducting performance testing of challenging technologies such as Socket applications & Video streaming.

We continue to support our community with useful tips & knowledge base. Keep exploring more on performance testing with our quarterly performance testing newsletter.

Timely execution of performance testing helps in identifying performance issues at an early stage. The best way is to run performance test suite whenever a new build is deployed. This time we came up with JMeter, Jenkins integration guide and tips to improve web page performance. Keep exploring more on performance testing with our quarterly performance testing newsletters.

Establishing a performance baseline for database transactions and evaluating the database to support additional load is a challenging task for every Performance testing engineer. This time around we have taken up this task & came up with this newsletter which can help you in conducting Database Load Test with ease.

We continue to support our community with useful tips & knowledge base. Keep exploring more on performance testing with our quarterly performance testing newsletters.

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